Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier ( born April 24, 1952 in Arcueil ) is a French fashion designer and founder of the eponymous fashion company.
Career
Gaultier never had training as a fashion designer. However, he began as a very young man sent his fashion sketches famous fashion designers. Pierre Cardin was impressed by his abilities and hired him in 1970 as an assistant. In haute couture house of Jean Patou in 1971, he worked as assistant to chief designer Michel Goma and after 1973 as an assistant to Angelo Tarlazzi, Goma's successor.
The Gaultier brand
His first collection Gaultier presented before 1976. In 1978 he founded the Jean Paul Gaultier SA. Since 1997, Gaultier created under the name Gaultier Paris Haute Couture collections also. In addition Gaultier currently offers a prêt -à -porter collection for men as well as a collection for men. The men's collection is presented as a unisex line since 2006 ² under the name Gaultier ( Gaultier Square). 1985 Gaultier created being produced under license youthful second-line Junior Gaultier, which was replaced in 1994 by JPG by Gaultier, a unisex collection. The latter was, however, already set back in 1997. In 1992, he launched Gaultier Jean's, a denim -based collection, which was renamed Jean's Paul Gaultier in 2004 and has since replaced the set second-line JPG. 2009 Children's Collection Junior Jean Paul Gaultier and Junior Gaultier was launched in collaboration with the French children's fashion specialist Groupe Zannier, which was expanded in 2011 to Gaultier Bébé for toddlers. There is also in the accessory range for women's jewelry, leather goods, shoes and glasses by Jean Paul Gaultier. Sales of branded Gaultier in 2009 was around 23 million euros.
Cooperations
End of 2009, Gaultier designed for the U.S. goods discounter Target under its ' Designer Collaborations ' program, a 50 -part, low -priced women's collection, which until April 2010 was available from March at Target. With the French furniture manufacturer Roche Bobois, there is also since 2010 a co-operation for furnishings after Gaultier had already designed in the 1990s for the French company VIA furniture. With the Italian lingerie maker La Perla Gaultier cooperated well in 2010. Gaultier collaborated with the artist couple LA Raeven together.
Gaultier - style
Gaultier gained the early reputation as the enfant terrible of French fashion. He creates very unusual, often hardly wearable fashion, which he often presents in Happenings. He is like an unconventional models as older, overweight women or pierced and tattooed people. One of his trademarks is the white long-sleeved T -shirt with narrow blue horizontal stripes in navy style. Many of his creations are derived from everyday wear and pop culture while his haute couture designs are strictly formal and playful at the same time. He made skirts for men popular and designed the costumes for many films such as Luc Besson's The Fifth Element, Pedro Almodóvar's Kika, Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, and Jean -Pierre Jeunet's City of Lost Children. For the singer Kylie Minogue and the 'X Tour' created in 2008 Gaultier haute couture clothing for Madonna in 1990 he designed the daring outfits of the 'Blonde Ambition Tour ' and its ' Confessions Tour' in 2006, for the Johnny Hallyday stage outfits 2003.
Hermès and Puig
Gaultier was also from 2004, the designer of women's fashion line by Hermès. Hermès held in the company Jean Paul Gaultier from 1999 a share of 35 %, which was increased in 2008 to 45%. With the Spring / Summer 2011 collection Gaultier's completed work for Hermès, after the former Hermès CEO Jean-Louis Robert Frédéric Dumas - Hermès, Gaultier which had closed in 2004, died 2010. 2011 it was announced that the house Hermès wants to share in the company Gaultier sell. Early May 2011 it was announced that the Spanish group Puig - a perfume manufacturer, which also includes fashion brands Carolina Herrera, Nina Ricci and Paco Rabanne are - the 45 - % stake in Gaultier of Hermès takes over. In addition, the Group acquired from a 15% company share by Jean Paul Gaultier, and thus holds a 60 % stake in the company. The remaining 40 % is owned by Jean Paul Gaultier himself from 2016 Puig will also provide the perfume license from Gaultier, which is currently owned by Beauté Prestige International.
Perfume
In 1993 launched his first Gaultier Women's Perfume ' Jean Paul Gaultier ', 1995 followed by the first men's fragrance ' Le Male'. Since then, the company introduced many other fragrances on the market, most recently ' Kokorico ' (2012 ). The fragrances are produced by Beauté Prestige International, a Paris subsidiary of Shiseido.
Others
In 2012 he was appointed to the jury of the 65th International Film Festival of Cannes.
Private
In the late 1980s, died Gaultier's longtime partner and business partner Francis Menuge from the effects of AIDS.